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The scope, the breadth, the depth, the width, of the right to life movement...
In this episode of Life Matters, Brian shares interviews from the National Right Life Convention, 2022. It was during this convention that the Dobbs Supreme Court decision was handed down.
More specifically, Brian spends time exploring the fact that the right to life impacts all aspects of our life and society. While there is a conscious effort by elites in our culture to define ‘choice’ as meaning ‘abortion,’ Brian reminds listeners that there are in fact numerous, life-affirming choices available. The simplistic and uncaring answer of severing that unique baby’s body into pieces and discarding it has numerous and diverse alternatives.
In discussing adoption, Brian retells the true story of Jack Nicholson, the actor. Few people realize that Mr. Nicholson is outspokenly pro-life. He knows that this is contrary to many in his industry and even perhaps many of his fans. Nicholson discovered that he had been adopted when he was thirty-seven years old when a Time magazine reporter called him in a “gotcha” interview.
It turns out that the woman whom Jack thought was his mother was in fact his grandmother. The woman he thought to be his sister was in fact his mother. They never explained the actual details to him. They merely loved him. Nicholson now says, “Of course, I’m pro-life. I understand I wouldn’t be alive. I’m sorry if you don’t like it, but I have to be pro-life.”
Brian explains that this unique form of adoption is just one of many, many possible choices and that there are several legal types of adoption: closed, agency, partially open and completely open adoption. Each of these have a different story and way of proceeding relative to the mother and the unique child and family. If this debate is in fact about choice, why are these other choices not described or more publicly discussed? Why does the word ‘choice’ now simply mean ‘abortion’?
In the second part of the program. Brian discusses the many and profound religious impacts of the abortion issue. The fact is that most pro-life individuals are from some religious background or faith. Brian explains the National Pro-life Religious Council's purpose and nature. He has a specific interview with Concerned Methodists for Life, an organization of lay Methodists determined to assert the principles of the Christian faith and the hope and virtues of affirming life within their own, challenged denomination.